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Alexander Hume

1809–1851


Alexander Hume (1809–1851) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 8 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 4 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. My Wee, Wee Wife
  2. O, Poverty!
  3. Nanny
  4. My Bessie
  5. Menie Hay
  6. I 've Wander'd on the Sunny Hill
  7. Oh! Years Hae Come
  8. My Mountain Hame

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